Ric Flair Admits He Drank 20 Drinks A Day During His WWE Career

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Ric Flair's unhealthy lifestyle during his career almost lost him his life.

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As you probably heard, wrestling legend Ric Flair spent 10 days on life support in August. While at the time we didn't know all the details, it turns out the 68-year-old's life was in serious danger.

"They told my kids that everything had shut down — kidney failure, congestive heart failure, everything shut down," he said to The Dan Le Batard Show. "The joke was, with the doctors, that the only thing that was alive and kicking, sitting at the bar waiting for me, was my liver."

But that liver — an extremely battered one, but a liver nonetheless — was the reason for Flair's lengthy trip to the hospital.

"Ten days on life support, it'll wake you up, man," Flair said on the show, revealing that his average drink intake during his WWE career was beyond extreme. "Between 3,700 and 4,000 calories worth of booze — soda or a splash of cranberry — every day. Like 20 drinks a day."

Wow, that's a sh*t ton of drinks.

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Flair said he wouldn't drink before matches and didn't consume in the typical way you think of when you think of alcoholism.

"You've seen movies where the guy's got the little pint of liquor hidden someplace in his closet or drawer, or he's carrying around a flask, where he just has to have the bottle there. I never, in my life, have drank at home, alone. The social part, that was me," he said.

Flair is now out of the hospital, but he's got a whole bunch of new health issues to deal with; he's had a pacemaker installed, and needs a colostomy bag for the next six months, according to ESPN. But despite the long road to recovery, Flair says he has a new lease on life.

"I'm happy for the people who put up with my bulls—- over there, because I was hard to get along with, man," he said. "You're sitting there, pushing a button to get someone to help you, you can't go to the bathroom and you need someone to walk with you. I'm lucky that I had a congenial crew to work with that liked me as well."

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Flair told AskMen he came up with all his golden smack talk and interview material "on the road at night drinking a beer."